Wire-cutting implement



P. P. DANIELS. WIRE CUTTING IMPLEMENT.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 21,1920.

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Patented Sept. 5, 1922.

PAUL I. DANIELS, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

WIRE-CUTTING IMPLEMENT.

Application filed July 21, 1920. Serial No. 398,001.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PAUL P. DANIELS, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wire-Cutting Implements, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to wire cutting implements, and an object is to provide an implement for cutting the outer portions of wire which are embedded in cement foundations and walls. Heretofore, it has been customary to cut the projecting ends of the wires after the cement has set and hardened by means of ordinary small wire cutters. This is very often a difiicult matter on account of the wires being inaccessible and hard to reach with the small tool. An object in particular of my invention is to provide an implement having a handle of considerable length with which cutting jaws are associated in such manner that the wires can be readily reached and cut. The full objects and advantages of my invention will appear in connection with the detailed description thereof, and the novel features embodied in my inventive idea will be particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings which illustrate the application of my invention in one form, Fig. 1 is a view on side elevation of the implement. Fig. 2 is a top plan view. Fig. 8 is a view in cross-section on the line 33 of Fig. 1.

Referring to the construction shown in the drawings, the numeral 10 designates a handle member, a portion of which is broken out to indicate that it may be of any desired length. At one end of the handle memher is a cutting jaw 12 which will be described in detail later. Cooperating with the cutting aw 12 is a cutting aw 14 which, at its rear end, is bent downwardly and extended to form a fulcrum member 16 which crosses the handle member 10, the two members being pivoted together by means of a bolt 18. The rear end of the member 16 is preferably broadened out at 20 so as to rest firmly upon any suitable support and preyent tipping of the implement. A spring 22 interposed between the end 20 and the handle member 10 normally holds the jaws in open position, as shown in Fig. 1. The cutting jaw 14 is beveled on both sides to form the cuttlng edge 24:. The manner in which the cutting jaw 12 is shaped is an important feature of my invention. This aw is curved When a wire such as X is to be cut, the lower curved surface of the jaw 12 is slid along the board or timber in the manner of a pinch bar until the lower 18 under the wire. Downward pressure on the handle member 10 then causes the wire to be quickly severed. The broad end 20 of the fulcrum member 16 prevents the implement from tipping during the cutting operatlon and on account of the broad forward end of the jaw 12 the latter may be readily slid along the support Y in the position to be brought beneath the wire which cut.

I claim:

An implement for cutting wires which are embedded in cement comprising a long handie member, the forward portion of which is provided with a broad convex lower surface which extends to the extreme forward end and which merges into a substantially straight cutting edge at its upper surface, a short fulcrum member crossingsaid handle member and pivoted thereto adjacent the rear of said cutting edge, and a cooperating cutting edge on the forward portion of said fulcrum member. 2

In testimony whereof I hereunto afiix my signature.

PAUL P. DANIELS.

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